The September Issue

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Critics' Reviews

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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Owen Gleiberman
Lusciously revealing fly-on-the-wall portrait of Anna Wintour.Read Full Review »
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Boston Globe: Wesley Morris
What the movie unfolds is how the magazine is inextricable from Wintour’s vision of it.Read Full Review »
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ROLLING STONE: Peter Travers
A subversively entertaining documentary.Read Full Review »
75
USA Today: Claudia Puig
While it doesn't scratch much below the surface, The September Issue is an entertainingly voyeuristic glimpse into the fashion world.Read Full Review »
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Philadelphia Inquirer: Carrie Rickey
Compulsively entertaining documentary.Read Full Review »
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CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Roger Ebert
What comes across is that she is, after all, a very good editor.Read Full Review »
70
Salon.com: Stephanie Zacharek
Behind the gloss of Vogue, a revealing look at work, creativity and two strong womenRead Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Sheri Linden
A slight, if often riveting, behind-the-scenes documentary.Read Full Review »
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The New York Times: Manohla Dargis
This entertaining, glib movie is about the maintenance of a brand that Ms. Wintour has brilliantly cultivated since she assumed her place at the top of the editorial masthead in 1988 and which the documentary’s director, R. J. Cutler, has helped polish with a take so flattering he might as well work there.Read Full Review »
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Village Voice: Melissa Anderson
Wintour's arctic imperiousness has a way of creating the most masochistic deference, a dynamic that R.J Cutler superficially explores--and becomes prone to--in his documentary The September Issue.Read Full Review »
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